Performances Quotes - Page 37

• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

  Jerry Hall

  Character, Being In Love, Theater

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• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  Kanye West

  Nike, Athlete, Garden

  "Kanye West Partners With Adidas, Cuts Ties With Nike" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be

  Tom Berenger

  Way, Should, Interfere

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• Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

  Derek Luke

  Confidence, Honest, Denzel

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesnt disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

  Brit Hume

  Fun, Mass Destruction, People

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• I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

  Linda Cardellini

  Brother, Kids, Shy

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

  Arianna Huffington

  Recharging, Commit, Hard

  "Arianna Huffington's Recipe for Success: Unplug, Renew and Recharge". Interview with Nina Zipkin, www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2014.

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• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  Ian Mckellen

  Sweet, Waiting, Theatre

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• After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

  Graham Nash

  Song, Six, Seven

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• I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

  Leo McKern

  Peers, Best Performance

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• I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Art, Fun, School

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• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  Vin Diesel

  Appreciation, Understanding, Dresses

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• Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

  Emmitt Smith

  Cowboy, Giving, Dallas

  FaceBook post by Emmitt Smith from Mar 11, 2014

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• I was definitely a fan of Robert Patricks character in T2. I was just really awed by his performance and the complete body control that he had, so I think maybe subconsciously, that played in the back of my mind.

  Kristanna Loken

  Character, Thinking, Mind

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• A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said I made it. Everybody knows who you are now. At that point everything in my life was flawless… I was just overwhelmed, I was happy, I was successful as an artist. I think I was in cruise control – like a little bit of bliss.

  Chris Brown

  Successful, Artist, Thinking

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• We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds

  Mark E. Petersen

  Punishment, Chinese, Saint

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• Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.

  Seth Klarman

  Practice, Guarantees, Strategy

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• If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

  Brendan Eich

  Missing, Needs, Ifs

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• We want our performance to be perfect, so even if I have to stay up to practice with my unnies, even if it’s really tiring, I know it is worth it

  Im Yoona

  Practice, Perfect, Want

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• Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

  David Fincher

  Psychology, Cameras, Actors

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• I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

  Timothy Bottoms

  Giving, People, President

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• I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Ambition, Careers, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Kids, Night

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• Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.

  John Astin

  Struggle, Want, Sometimes

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